[Applause]
does success elude you we’re told that
if we work hard that we’ll succeed
study hard get into a great school get a
great job and we’ll be successful but
this is a lie
matter of fact this will almost entirely
guarantee that you become mediocre
here’s some myths about success
we’re told that if we pursue passion
that will succed will succeed do you
want your love and successful follow
right why do you explain all those
artists and actors who are passionate
about their arts but will never become
famous and YouTube is full of it or the
one about putting in 10,000 hours how to
explain all those kids millions of kids
who play soccer or some other sports for
10 15 years
yet they will never make Pro or go to
the Olympics or the one about there’s
something special about you everyone
thinks that you’re the smartest come
from a great pedigree well that was
certainly the case for Samuel Langley he
was a professor secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution member of high
society and even received significant
funding to develop a piloted airplane
yet he was beaten by the Wright brothers
who had no pedigree no connections no
money Malcolm Gladwell attributes
success to other hidden variables such
as the year that you were born your
family upbringing and even luck well
that’s great but what about everyone
else who weren’t born in that ear or
then have those favorable circumstances
there is however a way to realize your
goals and I’m going to living proof
what I realized is that from my
experience that anyone striving to
succeed regardless of who or where you
are in life that the secret to success
is not 10,000 hours or being born into
the right family or being as smart as
Albert Einstein it’s a secret that I
call strive it’s about doing the things
that’s most uncomfortable that forces
you to create new spheres of influence
and power most people look at me and
assume that I come from a great
background that’s far from the truth I
grew up in Korea into poverty I didn’t
have a father my mother had less a
fourth-grade education and I still
remember after the rice harvest we will
go out to the field to glean picking up
the rice that fell into the ground and
for month to month
we borrow from neighbors to survive and
at school no matter how hard I tried I
can’t seem to get better than C’s
because apparently I was copy from the
wrong kid was during this volatile time
called the gwangju democratic movement
in south korea in the 80s that my mother
decided to emigrate us to the US but a
few years after we immigrated she had a
mental breakdown and that was placed
into foster care and since the age of 13
I moved from home to home I had
absolutely no one
and I literally should have ended up as
a nobody yet I’m a living proof of the
concept of strife that when we do the
things that’s most uncomfortable we
create incredible success the problem is
that most of us are on autopilot day in
and day out or habits anchor us down
we want success but yet it eludes us in
order to achieve success we first have
to disrupt ourselves do you know how to
build muscle in order to build muscle
you have to actually tear the muscle
fibers apart in order to build new ones
and that’s what effectively bodybuilders
do to disrupt themselves my mother and I
were hated by relatives for her decision
to marry my father and when I turned 3
my mother asked my father to leave and I
grew up without a father
and it left a big hole in my hearts and
back in the 70s in Korea not having a
father was not okay and people literally
treated me as if I was a bastard well
fast forward I was in the 5th grade in
the States well one day I was taken out
of class by a school counselor I didn’t
know what was going on then I was taken
to the police station no one explained
anything to me until hours later when a
social worker came and finally explained
that my mother was no longer capable of
caring for me then she began to contact
all four of my uncles and aunts and one
by one they refused to take me in I was
devastated
Hiyori was grow up in poverty didn’t
have a father or even a sibling and now
I’ve been turned down by my own
relatives my world fell apart and just
went everything seemed completely bleak
and hopeless my first foster parents
introduced me to God most of my life I
live behind a mask of facade I’m great
I’m perfect actually but then I went to
college and graduate school and I
started to experience these panic
attacks and depression and I didn’t know
what was going on then I started my
career I was driven I want a success but
yet something was holding me back you
see I was broken I was permanently
damaged my poor wife she had no idea
what she has signed up for when she
married me and I still remember when our
kids were young
my wife is ain’t dealing with a selfish
stubborn child of course I would say hon
come on be easy on the kids she said no
I was talking about you I’m not very
good at smiling and takes a little bit
of efforts and sometimes I look a little
angry well one day my daughter comes up
to me and says dad did I do something
wrong
I said no sweetheart no of course not
it’s your brother
it was after my first venture failure
that I realized I needed to do something
different something was holding me back
I needed to heal I spent three years in
counseling to emerge from that process
to become a different person and that
was my first major disruption my second
major disruption came when I turned 40
by then I had achieved a lot but I’m
still not experiencing that wild
incredible success that I always wanted
and the autonomy in all my past ventures
is about the idea the product the team
but nowhere in the picture was me I
never wanted to be in the limelight I
shied away from public attention I was
deathly afraid of sharing anything
personal
I wanted to remain anonymous and that’s
when I decided to disrupt myself again I
work with the physical therapists to
improve my speaking articulation I work
with the physical therapist a physical
therapist to improve my neck and posture
and I joined Toastmasters so I can
become a public speaker and I
aggressively submitted papers to speak
at conferences and every step of the way
was incredibly uncomfortable but earns
no one gave me a free ticket today I
work with nations and sovereignties and
NGOs such as the European Commission and
many countries around the world but
until I became intentional about
disrupting myself the success that I
always wanted was not attainable I am
wearing today because I did these things
that took me way outside of my comfort
zone one of the most
aspects of disrupting yourself is
abandoning your comfort zone or not your
tendency is to stay in our comfort zone
where as safe and familiar my work in
the Internet of Things and the fourth
Industrial Revolution has garnered
global attention and as I travel the
world speaking on destructive
technologies something began to emerge
in many of these regions they’re
struggling to adapt to exponential
technologies and to use these
technologies to transform their
economies why decided to do something
incredibly hard I decided to go
completely outside of my comfort zone
and create a venture capital firm to
transform nations yes transform nations
MX ventures works with nations to create
sustainable economic growth through
investment in the fourth in this
revolution and we worked with the local
ecosystem to address their knowledge and
skill gaps to store the IP to
commercialization and to fund those
startups and to help them build
international teams and to give them
access to global markets I frankly would
have been a lot easier to just start a
global funds and invest into promising
startups in Silicon Valley but have
chosen to do something that’s incredibly
uncomfortable because how are we going
to transform the world human history is
full of failed government and military
interventions how did you get to
stabilize a country or region it’s not
with guns sanctions government aid
research indicates that only through
sustainable economic growth can we begin
to address and tackle difficult
geopolitical can rights and income
inequality issues
do you know how South Korea went from
being one of the poorest nations in the
world to becoming an OECD g20 nation in
less than 50 years by doing the things
that was most uncomfortable as a nation
to transform a country in the 1980s made
in Korea meant that it was cheap quality
well they weren’t satisfied they wanted
more they kept pushing themselves to
move up the value-add curve and today
they are a world leader in consumer
electronics and semiconductors you see
many countries around the world are
stuck in low value commodity products
and services for example German
automakers leverage Czech Republic to
assemble auto parts why because of
lower-wage what’s going to happen to
Czech Republic as automakers replace
more humans with more robots and that’s
why we’re working with the local
ecosystem to take the advanced research
from universities and to commercialize
them into industry 4.0 startups Columbia
has been hit hard by fallen commodity
prices and this is a critical juncture
for Columbia as they’re just coming out
of the peace agreements and they’re
looking to join the OECD yet less than
0.2 percent other GDP is spent on
innovation and that’s why we’re working
with the local companies and industries
to increase their human capital in IP
driven innovation to modernize their oil
and gas mining and manufacturing
industries similarly Saudi Arabia has
been hit hard by low oil prices
moreover they recognize that the oil
reserve will run out in 25 years unless
they start taking action today to shift
the wave
oil to non oil industries their country
is at great risk as part of the national
transformation plan we’re working with
them to take their expertise in oil and
gas and to create new IPs new patents
and new startups to create new
industries every step of this journey is
incredibly uncomfortable for the nations
and the people but unless they take
these uncomfortable steps to transform
themselves they’re gonna be left behind
leading to social unrest conflict and
regional destabilization but just
because you took a few risks doesn’t
mean that success only shows up it takes
years of investing and persevering even
when others and sometimes you get
yourself transforming a nation doesn’t
happen overnight and perhaps more the
hardest aspect that transforming a
nation is about the mindset how the
local citizens view the notion of risk
and failure many young people around the
world
steer clear away from startups because
they’re afraid of feeling whereas in
Silicon Valley we celebrate failures
because it’s a stepping stone to success
many older people are afraid to change
innovation is seen as risky untested so
they hold dearly on to what they know
now recognizing that the industries of
today will become obsolete that they’ll
be left behind changing mindset will
take time success requires resolve and
when we fall we need to get back up and
again and again
regardless how you choose to define
success just raise your hand if you want
more success out of life great most of
us want more success out of life for
ourselves for kids for greater purpose
but how you’re going to make an impact
in the world if you keep on spinning the
same circle doing the same thing over
and over again expecting different
results I challenge you to the things
that’s most uncomfortable for you you
have the opportunity to realize great
success and it’s available to everyone
thank you
[Applause]
does success elude you we’re told that
if we work hard that we’ll succeed
study hard get into a great school get a
great job and we’ll be successful but
this is a lie
matter of fact this will almost entirely
guarantee that you become mediocre
here’s some myths about success
we’re told that if we pursue passion
that will succed will succeed do you
want your love and successful follow
right why do you explain all those
artists and actors who are passionate
about their arts but will never become
famous and YouTube is full of it or the
one about putting in 10,000 hours how to
explain all those kids millions of kids
who play soccer or some other sports for
10 15 years
yet they will never make Pro or go to
the Olympics or the one about there’s
something special about you everyone
thinks that you’re the smartest come
from a great pedigree well that was
certainly the case for Samuel Langley he
was a professor secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution member of high
society and even received significant
funding to develop a piloted airplane
yet he was beaten by the Wright brothers
who had no pedigree no connections no
money Malcolm Gladwell attributes
success to other hidden variables such
as the year that you were born your
family upbringing and even luck well
that’s great but what about everyone
else who weren’t born in that ear or
then have those favorable circumstances
there is however a way to realize your
goals and I’m going to living proof
what I realized is that from my
experience that anyone striving to
succeed regardless of who or where you
are in life that the secret to success
is not 10,000 hours or being born into
the right family or being as smart as
Albert Einstein it’s a secret that I
call strive it’s about doing the things
that’s most uncomfortable that forces
you to create new spheres of influence
and power most people look at me and
assume that I come from a great
background that’s far from the truth I
grew up in Korea into poverty I didn’t
have a father my mother had less a
fourth-grade education and I still
remember after the rice harvest we will
go out to the field to glean picking up
the rice that fell into the ground and
for month to month
we borrow from neighbors to survive and
at school no matter how hard I tried I
can’t seem to get better than C’s
because apparently I was copy from the
wrong kid was during this volatile time
called the gwangju democratic movement
in south korea in the 80s that my mother
decided to emigrate us to the US but a
few years after we immigrated she had a
mental breakdown and that was placed
into foster care and since the age of 13
I moved from home to home I had
absolutely no one
and I literally should have ended up as
a nobody yet I’m a living proof of the
concept of strife that when we do the
things that’s most uncomfortable we
create incredible success the problem is
that most of us are on autopilot day in
and day out or habits anchor us down
we want success but yet it eludes us in
order to achieve success we first have
to disrupt ourselves do you know how to
build muscle in order to build muscle
you have to actually tear the muscle
fibers apart in order to build new ones
and that’s what effectively bodybuilders
do to disrupt themselves my mother and I
were hated by relatives for her decision
to marry my father and when I turned 3
my mother asked my father to leave and I
grew up without a father
and it left a big hole in my hearts and
back in the 70s in Korea not having a
father was not okay and people literally
treated me as if I was a bastard well
fast forward I was in the 5th grade in
the States well one day I was taken out
of class by a school counselor I didn’t
know what was going on then I was taken
to the police station no one explained
anything to me until hours later when a
social worker came and finally explained
that my mother was no longer capable of
caring for me then she began to contact
all four of my uncles and aunts and one
by one they refused to take me in I was
devastated
Hiyori was grow up in poverty didn’t
have a father or even a sibling and now
I’ve been turned down by my own
relatives my world fell apart and just
went everything seemed completely bleak
and hopeless my first foster parents
introduced me to God most of my life I
live behind a mask of facade I’m great
I’m perfect actually but then I went to
college and graduate school and I
started to experience these panic
attacks and depression and I didn’t know
what was going on then I started my
career I was driven I want a success but
yet something was holding me back you
see I was broken I was permanently
damaged my poor wife she had no idea
what she has signed up for when she
married me and I still remember when our
kids were young
my wife is ain’t dealing with a selfish
stubborn child of course I would say hon
come on be easy on the kids she said no
I was talking about you I’m not very
good at smiling and takes a little bit
of efforts and sometimes I look a little
angry well one day my daughter comes up
to me and says dad did I do something
wrong
I said no sweetheart no of course not
it’s your brother
it was after my first venture failure
that I realized I needed to do something
different something was holding me back
I needed to heal I spent three years in
counseling to emerge from that process
to become a different person and that
was my first major disruption my second
major disruption came when I turned 40
by then I had achieved a lot but I’m
still not experiencing that wild
incredible success that I always wanted
and the autonomy in all my past ventures
is about the idea the product the team
but nowhere in the picture was me I
never wanted to be in the limelight I
shied away from public attention I was
deathly afraid of sharing anything
personal
I wanted to remain anonymous and that’s
when I decided to disrupt myself again I
work with the physical therapists to
improve my speaking articulation I work
with the physical therapist a physical
therapist to improve my neck and posture
and I joined Toastmasters so I can
become a public speaker and I
aggressively submitted papers to speak
at conferences and every step of the way
was incredibly uncomfortable but earns
no one gave me a free ticket today I
work with nations and sovereignties and
NGOs such as the European Commission and
many countries around the world but
until I became intentional about
disrupting myself the success that I
always wanted was not attainable I am
wearing today because I did these things
that took me way outside of my comfort
zone one of the most
aspects of disrupting yourself is
abandoning your comfort zone or not your
tendency is to stay in our comfort zone
where as safe and familiar my work in
the Internet of Things and the fourth
Industrial Revolution has garnered
global attention and as I travel the
world speaking on destructive
technologies something began to emerge
in many of these regions they’re
struggling to adapt to exponential
technologies and to use these
technologies to transform their
economies why decided to do something
incredibly hard I decided to go
completely outside of my comfort zone
and create a venture capital firm to
transform nations yes transform nations
MX ventures works with nations to create
sustainable economic growth through
investment in the fourth in this
revolution and we worked with the local
ecosystem to address their knowledge and
skill gaps to store the IP to
commercialization and to fund those
startups and to help them build
international teams and to give them
access to global markets I frankly would
have been a lot easier to just start a
global funds and invest into promising
startups in Silicon Valley but have
chosen to do something that’s incredibly
uncomfortable because how are we going
to transform the world human history is
full of failed government and military
interventions how did you get to
stabilize a country or region it’s not
with guns sanctions government aid
research indicates that only through
sustainable economic growth can we begin
to address and tackle difficult
geopolitical can rights and income
inequality issues
do you know how South Korea went from
being one of the poorest nations in the
world to becoming an OECD g20 nation in
less than 50 years by doing the things
that was most uncomfortable as a nation
to transform a country in the 1980s made
in Korea meant that it was cheap quality
well they weren’t satisfied they wanted
more they kept pushing themselves to
move up the value-add curve and today
they are a world leader in consumer
electronics and semiconductors you see
many countries around the world are
stuck in low value commodity products
and services for example German
automakers leverage Czech Republic to
assemble auto parts why because of
lower-wage what’s going to happen to
Czech Republic as automakers replace
more humans with more robots and that’s
why we’re working with the local
ecosystem to take the advanced research
from universities and to commercialize
them into industry 4.0 startups Columbia
has been hit hard by fallen commodity
prices and this is a critical juncture
for Columbia as they’re just coming out
of the peace agreements and they’re
looking to join the OECD yet less than
0.2 percent other GDP is spent on
innovation and that’s why we’re working
with the local companies and industries
to increase their human capital in IP
driven innovation to modernize their oil
and gas mining and manufacturing
industries similarly Saudi Arabia has
been hit hard by low oil prices
moreover they recognize that the oil
reserve will run out in 25 years unless
they start taking action today to shift
the wave
oil to non oil industries their country
is at great risk as part of the national
transformation plan we’re working with
them to take their expertise in oil and
gas and to create new IPs new patents
and new startups to create new
industries every step of this journey is
incredibly uncomfortable for the nations
and the people but unless they take
these uncomfortable steps to transform
themselves they’re gonna be left behind
leading to social unrest conflict and
regional destabilization but just
because you took a few risks doesn’t
mean that success only shows up it takes
years of investing and persevering even
when others and sometimes you get
yourself transforming a nation doesn’t
happen overnight and perhaps more the
hardest aspect that transforming a
nation is about the mindset how the
local citizens view the notion of risk
and failure many young people around the
world
steer clear away from startups because
they’re afraid of feeling whereas in
Silicon Valley we celebrate failures
because it’s a stepping stone to success
many older people are afraid to change
innovation is seen as risky untested so
they hold dearly on to what they know
now recognizing that the industries of
today will become obsolete that they’ll
be left behind changing mindset will
take time success requires resolve and
when we fall we need to get back up and
again and again
regardless how you choose to define
success just raise your hand if you want
more success out of life great most of
us want more success out of life for
ourselves for kids for greater purpose
but how you’re going to make an impact
in the world if you keep on spinning the
same circle doing the same thing over
and over again expecting different
results I challenge you to the things
that’s most uncomfortable for you you
have the opportunity to realize great
success and it’s available to everyone
thank you
[Applause]
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